PASADENA, California, March 25 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Caltech Offers Admission to Incoming Undergraduate Class On March 8, Caltech released its final round of undergraduate admissions decisions, offering admission to a total of 427 exceptional students. Hailing from 41 U.S. states and territories and 27 countries around the globe, the admitted students embody academic excellence, a shared dedication to scientific inquiry, and diverse lived  more

ITHACA, New York, March 25 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Cornell Cinema to host screening of The Accelerator, film on physicist Robert R. Wilson Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary The Accelerator on Tuesday, April 8, at 6 p.m. Producer David Raubach will attend the screening and participate in a discussion following the film. The documentary explores the life and impact of Dr. Robert R. Wilson, a pioneering physicist whose legacy is deep  more

ITHACA, New York, March 25 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Cornell Cinema to screen 'The Accelerator,' film on physicist Wilson Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary The Accelerator on Tuesday, April 8, at 6 p.m. Producer David Raubach will attend the screening and participate in a discussion following the film. The documentary explores the life and impact of Dr. Robert R. Wilson, a pioneering physicist whose legacy is deeply connected to Cor  more

ITHACA, New York, March 26 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Five early-career professors win NSF development awards Researchers studying the origins of novel traits in organisms, the exotic properties of anyons and their implications for quantum computing, and the fundamental understanding of extreme weather are among the five Cornell assistant professors who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Each researcher will rec  more

KOKOMO, Indiana, March 27 -- Indiana University's Kokomo Campus issued the following news: * * * Student research highlighted at inaugural Regionals at the Rotunda KOKOMO, Ind. -- Research by six Indiana University Kokomo students will be showcased at the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday (March 26) in the inaugural Regionals at the Rotunda. The event celebrates undergraduate research and the faculty members who support those efforts at IU Kokomo, IU East, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Sout  more

HAMILTON, New York, March 26 -- Colgate University posted the following news: * * * Next Up on 13: A Conversation With Visiting Professor Stephanie Miner On the latest episode of 13, the Charles Evans Hughes Visiting Chair of Government and Jurisprudence in the Department of Political Science Stephanie Miner shares her experiences as former mayor of the City of Syracuse. In the fall of 2019, Miner joined Colgate as a visiting professor. From 2010 to 2018, she served as the 53rd Mayor of Syr  more

BRISBANE, Australia, March 27 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * QUT research boosted with eight Accelerator grants Eight QUT research teams have received more than $3.6 million in grants from the Australian Economic Accelerator Ignite program. The eight QUT-led projects are: Professor Leonie Barner, from QUT's School of Chemistry and Physics, will lead the project Bioadhesives for underwater applications funded by a $498,000 grant with QUT researche  more

ROCHESTER, New York, March 27 -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * Center for Detectors reached milestone in NASA-funded project The center recently achieves first light image Hard work is paying off for the Center for Detectors as the team has recently achieved a first light using a single photon imaging detector for a NASA-funded project. The center is working to advance and characterize single-photon sensing CMOS image sensors to determine if they  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Here are awards announced by colleges, public policy organizations and government agencies - March 26, 2025: * * * 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy The innovative team of engineers and scientists from NASA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and more than 40 other partner organizations across the country that created the Parker Solar Probe mission has been awarded the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA)  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 27 -- The University of California issued the following news release: * * * Atmospheres of new planets might have unexpected mixtures of hydrogen and water Water and gas react under intense heat and pressure in the atmospheres of young Earth-to-Neptune-sized planets Key takeaways * Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and w  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 26 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Actor, director, producer, Penn alumna Elizabeth Banks to speak at 269th Commencement At the Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 19, Banks will receive an honorary degree, along with the other 2025 Penn honorary degree recipients. Actor, director, and producer Elizabeth Banks, a 1996 Penn graduate, will deliver the 2025 University of Pennsylvania Commencement   more